Archives: Atari 2600 games

Pelé’s Soccer AKA Championship Soccer

Pelé's Soccer, first sold as Championship Soccer, is Atari's own football (soccer) game for the Atari 2600, designed by Steve Wright. It was planned for the 1980 holiday season and reached shops in early 1981. Each side fields…

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Chopper Command

Chopper Command is a horizontally scrolling shooter designed by Bob Whitehead and released by Activision for the Atari 2600 in 1982. You fly a helicopter gunship over the desert, shooting down enemy jets and helicopters before they can…

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Circus Atari

Circus Atari is a 1980 paddle game from Atari, programmed by Mike Lorenzen. You slide a seesaw along the bottom of the screen so that two acrobatic clowns can take turns flying up to pop rows of balloons.…

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Bowling

Bowling is one of the early Atari VCS (later Atari 2600) cartridges, released by Atari in January 1979 and also sold by Sears under the same name. It was designed and programmed by Larry Kaplan. It is a…

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Boxing

Boxing is a 1980 sports game by Activision, designed and programmed by Bob Whitehead. It was one of the four cartridges Activision launched with that summer, the first games ever sold for the Atari 2600 by a company…

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Breakout

Breakout is the Atari 2600 version of Atari's 1976 arcade classic: one paddle, one ball and a wall of coloured bricks. It came out for the console in November 1978, was programmed by Brad Stewart, and became one…

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Bugs

Bugs is a 1982 paddle-controlled shooting game from Data Age, a short-lived Californian publisher of Atari 2600 cartridges. You have landed on a dead planet ruled by intelligent "Super-Bugs", and you have to blast them as they crawl…

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Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is an unreleased Atari 2600 game from 1983, designed and programmed by Bob Polaro with graphics by Alan Murphy. Atari tested it and then shelved it, so it never reached the shops, but prototype copies have…

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Bump ‘n’ Jump

Bump 'n' Jump is the Atari 2600 version of Data East's 1982 arcade driving game, released in 1983 by Mattel Electronics under its M Network label. You drive up a winding road, knocking other cars off the track…

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Bumper Bash

Bumper Bash is a pinball game for the Atari 2600, published by Spectravision, the games label of Spectravideo, in 1983 and programmed by David Lubar. It fits a whole table on one screen: bumpers, drop targets, a spinner…

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